Another fun weekend

Jillian and I had fun weekend again. We went our seperate ways on Friday night. Jillian hung with xx chromosome and I went with xy. We both had great nights. The next morning we went out to breakfast with two of jillian's work colleagues. It was a great breakfast some cool cats.


that night we had two friends over for dinner. We played cards had laughs and best of all their nuerotic dog that doesn't usually go near men at all came up and sat next to me.


Oh during the week I repainted the door and completed some home work. All and all a good weekend.
--Matty3stars--

Exciting news

Okay over the couple of months in my blog.
I have said that I have something exciting in the works. Well that exciting thing was an internship(a more intense work experience). I have had few fall through that I thought I was on with (they were mainly through friends or school). That is why I didn't want to say anything, cause nothing was for sure. I didn't want jinx it.

A few weeks ago my friend Charlie hooked me up with an interveiw at a really rad web design firm. A week or so later I heard back from them with a yes we would love to have you join our team as a intern. I was so excited, but that is not even the most exciting part about it.
So it is a 3 month fulltime internship. Which is what I thought it may be and every other internship I have looked into has been unpaid. Well in this email I got back from them, they said we pay our interns $10 an hour. My jaw dropped to the floor. I thought I was going to be going to school, TAing, interning and trying to fit in as many hours as I could at the movie theater. Now I can quit the movie theater. Well I am going to be an emergency back up. So I can focus solely on school and the internship.
The place I am interning at is http://www.designcommission.com
Jillian got me a pair of headphones as a congratulation gift. Wesc maracas. I will send an image when I get them in the mail.

In other exciting news I am writing and drawing a childrens book for a company called marsnews.com . It is what says in the name it is a rad website dedicated to delivering news about space and mars. I have sent off a story board to them and they love it. I have started working on the actual illustrations. I won't tell you what it is about, I need to keep something as a surprise.

Other than that Jillian is good and loving her job. Carpooling with her Sister Natalie just about everyday. The pooches are good. Family is good.
We have been hanging out with friends and just enjoying life. Even when I have to change out the garbage disposal over the weekend. Actually I rather enjoyed learning how to do that.
I hope this finds you all well.

--Matty3stars--

Our weekend away

Good morning, evening or afternoon everyone,

This past weekend you may have noticed if you read the blog that Jillian, Allison and I were in Portland Oregon. It is about 3 hours south of Seattle. We were headed down there for a couple of reasons. Ours friend Julia's birthday and Her husband Paul was running in the Portland Marathon, which is 26.2 miles long.

We headed out about 8pm Friday night to avoid traffic and to watch the first game of the Family softball final.  They won the first game and lost the second.

We stayed just out of Portland for Friday night at a friends house in Battleground.

Saturday morning we headed in to the city of Portland making a quick stop/ drive through memory lane of Jillian's old university. Were she picked up a new hoodie. Then Jillian took us into the City were she showed us around districts such as the Pearl and Hawthorne districts. Where there was great bookshops, opshops, restaurants, stores and an atmosphere that was very welcoming.

I finally got to skate Burnside Skate park. Let me just say this park is the most  intense park I have ever skater, the videos and magazine photo's do not it justice at all. The locals were killing it. And a funny little side note I rocked up with my skateboard and started rolling around and most people were very welcoming. But when a these guys rocked up to take photo's and bunch of the locals stopped skating and very firmly told these guys that if they wanted to take photo's they would have to go get them some beer. When they came back with beer the locals stepped it up a notch and started smashing parts of the park that I was getting worked on. Plus it seem like they are adding to the park and it looks rad.

On Saturday night we all went out to dinner with Julia, Paul and both of their families to Celebrate Julia's 26th b'day. To Julia and Paul's favorite Mexican restaurant. It was delicious and a fantastic time.

The next day Paul started his race at seven in the morning. He was off way to early for the most of the group. We met up with him at the 22nd mile and we found out that Paul was having a harder time then expected. So I got the bright idea to jog with Paul fro a while well that while ended up being for 4 or so miles. in skate shoes, jeans and a hooded jumper. Let me just say I was hurting the next day. I can not imagine how Paul was feeling....But Paul finished in 5 hours and 45 mins. Everyone was very proud and impressed with Paul.

After the raced finished we all went out for lunch with Julia and Paul's family. I had to skip out to catch up with a friend of mine Anna and her boyfriend. We went out to coffee and had a great time.

Oh I was walking around taking photo's while we waited at mile 22 fro Paul and I found this desk and chair. I had to have a photo taken with it and you will see in the photo a jacket I bought in the Hawthorne district  at an op shop.

After a great weekend we headed home and slept very well...

Hope you are all doing well..

Peace out Matty

Burnside skatepark

Look what I got to skate.


--Matty3stars--

The start of the Portland trip

Jillian, Allison and I are having a weekend away in Portland. Which is about 3 hrs south of Seattle our first stop was a visit to the University of Portland for Jillian to have trip down memory lane. Then we stopped at the addidas world Hq and I took this picture.


I will try and keep it updated through the fun weekend.

Fun Stuff all over the Show

Over the last couple of weeks Jillian and I have been having a great time.
With activities including Car camping, birthday dinners, game nights, baking cookies, work party and another rolled ankle.

So I will break all these events down quickly..

Car Camping:
On Tuesday ten of us of decided that we would go camping Friday night. It was a great night we had a camp fire, smores, hot dogs, a few drinks and a great night filled with laughs.














Birthday dinners:
My Sister in law had a birthday dinner the other Sunday which was very fun. It was a completely vegan dinner.
The night before that the whole family went to dinner at a family friends to celebrate their son's 18th birthday. And we celebrated by having a games night.

Baking cookies:
Jillian and I had Savanna over a couple of weeks ago. We made cookies and had a great time with a delicious dinner to top it off.














Rolling my ankle:
Once again my left ankle rolled while skating. It was not doing anything fancy at all, it was doing a switch ollie on flat. And every other skater out there is asking if it was down a large set of stairs or something impressive. Nope this guy can do that on the flat with no obstacles or anything. I am that impressive. As I write this my ankle is getting back to normal and I can not complain it could of been worse.

Work Party:
The Other Wednesday the movie theater I work at held a work party for us to say thank you for a cleaning party we had the week before. It was held at a bowling club and we all had a blast . I think my highest was 135.

















Logo work:
Yesterday I helped finish up my friends logo for her photography business.
Here is a sample of it...











I hope you are having as great couple weeks like Jillian and I..

Peace out Matty

September 11 2009

Lets jump into this straight away,

Jillian is loving her job and regarding her coffee shop job. The boss there didn't want to lose her completely and ask her to work twice a month. Jillian was excited about this as she loves it there as well. Jillian finished her Chemistry class, which she finished with an A. Jillian didn't even study for the last exam. Being married to a genius is very humbling. Jillian is looking at this new job as a career and has put the idea of school teaching on a very extended hold.

Me personally I have had a project come to an end. I was ask to create a four posters to put into napkin dispensers for the movie theater I work at. I was given real freedom with the project and and was very happy with the out come.
Over the last year I have been skating this local skate park and have been a few rad little kindships. Which leads me into a two stories.
1.
I have tried to get skateboard lesson's happening at the skatepark before. But to no avail.
But over the last six months there has been a 4 year kid there Braydon rolling around on a scooter.
Well early on Braydon asked me to borrow my skate board and as I am usually carrying a spare or two for this exact reason. I let him borrow the spare one. Braydon and his Mum were always grateful.
Braydon's Mom Deanna and I were talking a couple of weeks ago about kids needing lesson's and I told her the story of me trying to get free lessons started there and how it came to no avail.
And Braydon's Mom quickly said that she would love to have me teach Braydon skating. So yesterday we meet up for a half an hour skate lesson. It was so much fun. Braydon learned how to push and put his feet back on. do many kick turns. He has a natural ability.
Braydon and his Mum Deanna were very grateful and I was very stoked to be able to teach skateboarding again.

2.
So I spoke about this in past blogs that I am trying to get skateboards together for underprivileged children Skateboards for Christmas.
Well I have had a huge response from a fair few people. It is looking like I am going to have over ten boards to give away. I am mad excited about this and I am a very grateful for everyone that is helping out. I just wanna give a big shout out to the local kirkland skaters who jumped on board without hesitation. thanks guys and girls.
I finished my flash class. That program still blows me away. I have two weeks off and start back up TAing on the 30th of Sept and a 10 week typography class on the starting on the 1st of october.

Jillian and I are lucky enough to have surrounded ourselves with great friends over here. And in the last post I spoke about going to hang out with a bunch of them on Camano Island. It was a very windy and wet weekend. though that didn't stop the fun. There was crabbing, movies, games, drinks, food and more food. Our friend Laura's parents hosted us all weekend. A big shout out to Nancy and Bob woot woot!!!!
We also got to catch up with friends for coffee and Another set of friends for a beer in the last week. These interactions make me feel more at home as time goes on....

We have had little news on the house, but what we have had was all good son....

here are some pics of the movie theater project I was working on....




































I hope you all are doing well and I can not wait to hear from you cats, you dig!!
Matty